Today was another one of those days when I appreciate unschooling. I had envisioned us quickly working through our textbook materials this morning and then moving onto free time (they could play, I could work). But, we are still searching for our lost digital camera - an item essential to our source of income. So, everyone worked on organizing the inventory room, in hopes that it had fallen into a box in there.
Note: it's the end of the day and we still haven't found it!
But, back to this story. We sorted, researched, priced, packaged and stacked boxes and boxes of inventory. Anyone who has ever worked for any retail business knows that this is training for real life.
Then, our midwife stopped by and invited us to a local church that was having a hymn sing and potluck dinner. Of course, we had to go. So, Caitlin learned to make cupcakes for our dish to pass, and brought her hymnal in case she got a chance to solo. Of course she did!
After dinner, we drove Tyler over to his Cub Scout Lock In. As the winner of a "What I want to be when I grow Up" contest, he was one of the boys who got to have an adult in their chosen field come and speak to the whole group. Tyler wants to be a missionary and the leader was able to get a youth pastor to come and speak about shepherding a flock for Christ. We left the church after Caitlin sang, and arrived at the Scout House just in time to hear the pastor speak.
I can't imagine what we could have possibly learned from our textbooks that would have been more beneficial to our children's futures both here on earth and in Heaven.
The author of this blog: Corinne Johnson is a Christian homeschooling mom to six children, help meet to her husband Don, and the author of Vacation Education Books; travel guides for families who love to learn, unit studies for families who love to travel. Learn more at www.vacationeducationbooks.net
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